VIVALDI UNWIRED
6 – 15 May 2015

This May, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra presents Vivaldi Unwired, showcasing the Orchestra and Vivaldi as you never imagined before!

A shared belief in the transformative power of music and a spirit of intrepid adventure led award-winning British composer Max Richter to re-imagine the baroque classic, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons for orchestra and synthesiser, and for Paul Dyer AO to take up the challenge to present the recomposed piece with period instruments, taking the reins of the synthesiser himself.

The result is an audacious creation that takes the audience through the same landscape of spring, summer, autumn and winter but with a renewed sense of the brilliance of Vivaldi’s work. Richter’s Recomposed – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons is in turns beautiful, peaceful and serene, yet also wild, passionate and intensely emotional, proving great music can flourish under radically different interpretations and still retain its indestructible genius.

Vivaldi Unwired includes Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, widely recognised as amongst the best baroque compositions written, C.P.E Bach’s Concerto for flute (arr. soprano saxophone) featuring Brandenburg favourite Christina Leonard, Vivaldi’s Concerto op. 3 no. 8 from L’estro armonico and finally discover Vivaldi, the indestructible baroque genius in a new light with Richter’s Recomposed – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, beautifully led by Guest Concertmaster Brendan Joyce.

Don’t miss this baroque adventure with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.